Take it all with a grain of salt. Here's a (vaguely) contrasting view from John Carmack: http://number-none.com/blow/john_carmack_on_inlined_code.html http://

Take it all with a grain of salt. Here's a (vaguely) contrasting view from John Carmack: http://number-none.com/blow/john_carmack_on_inlined_code.html http://number-none.com/blow/john_carmack_on_inlined_code.htm... The main takeaway is that inlining a bunch of code to flatten the dependency tree may actually reveal problems and reduce your maintenance burden.